YouTubers

Google decided that instead of trying to beat the competition, it would buy it and acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in October 2006.

Others moved into niches, such as Vimeo, which hosted high-quality videos by musicians and film-makers.

Booktube’ is the name given to the corner of YouTube devoted to books.

Some 225,000 people subscribe to another unlikely YouTube star – 74-year-old American Peggy Glenn.

That’s because YouTube is like a video encyclopaedia, the sum of human knowledge in easily digestible form.

Rossi had built a following of 300,000 subscribers on YouTube for his DIY videos, posted under the name Ultimate Handyman. But, as he explained to me late one evening after working as a maintenance engineer at a chemical plant, he’s not actually a handyman – and his YouTube channel has its roots elsewhere on the internet.

But when she uploaded the odd real crime video she tapped a torrent of interest. From that point, the composition of Neale’s channel changed: for the following few months, she would almost alternate a beauty video with a crime vlog. Eventually, crime became the core component of Neale’s channel, with beauty taking a back seat.

year-old social media star Jacob Sartorius tweets superficially profound statements like ‘I’m into you’ and ‘YOU’RE IMPORTANT’. His three million subscribers on YouTube, nine million followers on Instagram and 1.6 million followers on Twitter may think he’s talking to each of them, when in fact he’s talking to all of them.

Many of those beauty followers will watch Huda Kattan.

o better than the average and break through the 1,000 view mark and you are a nano-influencer.